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When I eat out at Chinese restaurants one of my favorite dishes to order is steak and peppers with black bean sauce. It is a nice simple and yet tasty dish that is fairly healthy. I have made this at home before using a jarred black bean sauce but now that I had found the fermented black beans, I wanted to try making it with them. The steak and peppers came together pretty easily and quickly. I made sure to not overcook the peppers as I like them to still be crisp and fresh. The steak and peppers in fermented black bean sauce was pretty tasty! It goes well on rice which soaks up any of the excess sauce. This dish is pretty flexible and you could easily change the beef to chicken or prawns etc. and you could change the peppers with broccoli or some other vegetable.

Steak and Peppers in Black Bean Sauce

ingredients

1 pound beef (thinly sliced)

2 tablespoons soy sauce

1 teaspoon sugar

1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine or dry sherry

1 tablespoon cornstarch

1 tablespoon oil

1 tablespoon oil

1 tablespoon oil

1 onions (chopped)

2 tablespoons garlic (chopped)

2 tablespoons ginger (chopped)

2 tablespoons fermented black beans (soaked in water and chopped)

2 green bell peppers (cut into bite sized pieces)

1/2 cup chicken stock

* soy sauce to taste

directions

Marinate the beef in the soy sauce, sugar, rice wine, cornstarch and oil while you chop everything.

Heat the oil in a pan.

Saute the beef until almost cooked and set aside.

Heat the oil in the same pan.

Add the onions and saute until tender, about 5-7 minutes.

Add the garlic, ginger and fermented black beans and saute until fragrant, about 1 minute.

I just picked up some preserved black beans this weekend and used a tiny bit sauteed with yu choi. I liked the flavor, but it was a little strong. I didn't know you should soak them! I think that will help a lot next time I use them. Thanks!

this is one of my pop's favourite dish cause he's a meat-face. lol. but this dish is commonly prepared with bittergourd instead so the intense 'heat' of the beef and intense flavour of the black beans are cleansed by the 'coolness' gourd. also, the beef helps to boost iron and protein in your system whilst the gourd maintains overall wellbeing and clears the toxins in the system.

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